Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

Installed via the AUR package. First go-round I had sound, but no video. Tried putting on some debug options but that just seems to have somehow broken sound as well. Deleted the .netflix-desktop directory, but that didn't even restore sound.

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

Heya... hmm, I have some issues.. which I might suspect could be a recent update to catalyst or so?

I am on arch linux 64 bit.. have a bunch of lib32 installed , I think any which are listed here as I use wine for some games I finally got to work.. woohoo.. civ 5 for example

Anyway... I suspect it is a driver issue with catalyst because silverlight in windows virtual box machines also* is only a black screen until recently.. so something has changed. I did notice a vbox update since, (4.2.8 which I installed in the win 7 box etc)... so it could* have been this.. until that made me come to wine-silverlight/netflix-desktop.

So here I am and have still no video/sound as in the vbox in the netflix thing.

ANyone else on radeon which can confirm this?

I have played around with the scripts so it would be not the full screen ui bla bla, as I don't have a netflix account but am trying to watch TV from scandinavia, where I am currently.

Also... this didn't say much but I get wine errros:

err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {f7747266-777d-4f61-a175-dd5adf1e37df} not registerederr:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {f7747266-777d-4f61-a175-dd5adf1e37df} could be created for context 0x1

that's also if I try clicking on netflix try a month, facebook click thing... and nothing happens, so this might be relevant too.

Any one else with these things, shout out!

EDIT: Oh, and I suspect the new 13.2 drivers would help as native steam mentioned , sorry you are on an older.. so it might help when they come out. WIll see if I can compile them and give it a try and give feedback.

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

I'm also having problems. Netflix plays, but only shows a solid color with audio. I can still do play/pause and stuff, I guess it's just showing me only one pixel. Wine asked to install silverlight itself (I had already installed it through the package from the AUR, wine-silverlight) so maybe that's part of the problem. Any ideas anyone?Thanks,-Cliff

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

i had to manually install "patch" since i didnt have wine installed. think either wine-silverlight, or more likely just wine should have "patch" listed as a dependency, because wine install failed, see wine PKGBUILD line 155.

it urks me to have to install wine, in fact im only installing it so i can watch netflix, now thats a cluster fuk of a mess.

thanks anyhow, appreciate the netflix-fix!

edit.makepkg is still running more than 5 minutes on my laptop. 10,000+ files to run one website. i guess it was very wishful thinking that i only needed wine-silverlight, without wine. did i make a mistake? well, i guarantee tomorrow when my wife wakes up she will appreciate finally being able to watch netflix.

Last edited by wolfdogg (2013-04-01 08:40:20)

i "the local machine" have got a bunch of technoligocally adcanved slaves whoms intelligence is derived from the adomstraptr instructions..!

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

wine-silverlight takes forever to compile but it's worth it. The first time I had the packages installed it was a bit laggy/buggy, however it seems to work perfectly fine now even on my 2GB ram netbook.

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

im just getting black screen as well when netflix plays. i can hear the movie, but no video. i checked if i had lib32-libgl, i reinstalled it, i let it reinstall mesa, which was one of the components of that. no cigar. im on an hp4250 laptop on this system which has an intel graphx chip. is there any alternate drivers i might try?

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

Jodell wrote:

Netflix is currently telling me to upgrade silverlight. When I did that it then told that it was not installed. Does any one have any ideas?

It's doing the same over here. The work-around that is working here is to delete the .netflix-desktop folder from your home directory, and restart. This rebuild and downloads silverlight and then you log in again. This seems to fix it for awhile, however, it exhibits this issue occasionally AFTER doing this. (As I said... "workaround"....not 'fixed'.)

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

caseyjp1 wrote:

Jodell wrote:

Netflix is currently telling me to upgrade silverlight. When I did that it then told that it was not installed. Does any one have any ideas?

It's doing the same over here. The work-around that is working here is to delete the .netflix-desktop folder from your home directory, and restart. This rebuild and downloads silverlight and then you log in again. This seems to fix it for awhile, however, it exhibits this issue occasionally AFTER doing this. (As I said... "workaround"....not 'fixed'.)

Yeah, that workaround only works once so it has to be redone every time you want to watch netflix. Not ideal.

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

I've had success by deleting the .netflix-desktop folder and them immediately disabling firefox from auto updating. alt-t-o will quickly bring up options window. Go to advanced tab then update tab to turn off auto updates.

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

Hi guys, I'm getting an error trynig to install the Silverlight binary. When it tries to extract the volume to install it errors out saying "Unable to find a volume for file extraction. Please verify that you have proper premissions" Was only able to figure it out after runing the install commands manually. Any ideas, because I haven't been able to find any mentions of this elsewhere?

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

I just wanted to say thank you for this.

It more or less worked "out of the box" for me. The only extra thing I needed to do was install the sound packages specified in the Wine Wiki page (lib32-alsa-lib, lib32-libpulse, lib32-alsa-oss), probably because I'm using PulseAudio.

As mentioned before in the thread, the video is a little glitchy when first loading but settles down fairly quickly (in under 30 seconds).

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

I just tried this again, and it seems much better than when I first checked it out. This can now finally replace xp in virtualbox for me.

But there is one issue that I'm wondering if anyone else has seen - I skimmed through the thread here, but didn't see any mention of it. When watching fullscreen I'll get an intermittent flash of a black rectangle in the upper left corner of the video. It's roughly 10% of each width/height of the screen (perhaps a bit wider than tall), and it flashes in and out a couple times per second for several seconds to a minute at a time.

It seems minor, but it's quite distracting, my eyes just get drawn to it. I can speculate that it seems like some sort of wine dialog/popup may be trying to be mapped, but this is just a wild guess.

No other client windows are on screen when this happens. Anyone have any guesses, or thoughts on gathering info?

Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

Trilby wrote:

I just tried this again, and it seems much better than when I first checked it out. This can now finally replace xp in virtualbox for me.... I can speculate that it seems like some sort of wine dialog/popup may be trying to be mapped, but this is just a wild guess.... Anyone have any guesses, or thoughts on gathering info?

Who are you, and what have you done with Trilby? (Running complex things, check. Not fully aware of everything running, check. Different avatar, check. Poster != Trilby. Quod Erat Demonstrandum)

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Re: netflix-desktop and wine-silverlight are now in AUR

So to install wine-silverslight, I need gcc-multilib as a dependency. For some reason, I don't have it. So if I try to install gcc-multilib, it tells me that gcc-libs-multilib and gcc-libs are in conflict and if I want to remove gcc-libs.

Everything in my body tells me that this is a bad idea.

Is it safe to do? After using Arch for this long, I'm 70% sure it's not.

Edit: I replaced all the gcc with the multilib stuff and 'makepkg' ran fine. However, it's still running. It's been running for like 15 minutes. Wtf at this program? Why is it taking so long? It's compiling different things but holy crap, this is too long. Is it like this for anyone else? I've never had a makepkg take so long before O_o